John Underwood, a collision investigator for Northamptonshire Police, said he believed Mr Gibson had made a “deliberate decision” to run into the path of the lorry.

County coroner Anne Pember, recording a verdict of suicide, said: “I believe at a time when he was feeling low and depressed he made a decision he no longer wished to live.”

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